PSYC 3490 EXAM 3 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Question: What are the positive outcomes associated with fulfilling friendships?
Correct Answer: Increased life satisfaction, Improved health, Better academic achievement, mitigating
negatives.
Question: Identify stereotyped beliefs about male and female friendship patterns
Correct Answer: Male friendships are competitive and less relational than females
Question: Define relational aggression and identify examples. Describe a potential explanation for why
girls and women engage in more relational aggression compared to boys/men
Correct Answer: Damaging others' existing or potential relationships and/or social status (bullying, gossip,
etc.). Men engage more in physical aggression.
Question: What are markers of a healthy romantic relationship?
Correct Answer: Time and tasks shared, affection, informal and deep talk, conflict management.
Question: Predictors of poor relationship outcomes?
Correct Answer: Giving up control, destructive conflict, spying, purposefully making the other jealous,
avoidance, cheating
Question: What are the benefits of marriage (physically, psychologically, financially, etc.)?
Correct Answer: Social support, increased earnings, inheritance and social security, tax benefits, employer
benefits, etc.
Question: Describe gendered division of labor in heterosexual couples including the amount of time spent
on household tasks and the type of tasks (routine labor, low-control labor, and intermittent labor).
Correct Answer: Women are expected to take on routine and low-control labor whereas men are expected
to do intermittent labor.
Question: What is relative resource theory?
Correct Answer: Social exchange and time availability (who brings in more money). Pattern of labor
inequality is seen even when women earn more, contradicting the theory's findings.
Question: Define reproductive justice and stratified reproduction
Correct Answer: Choice over all factors of reproduction and parenting. Those with more resources have
more autonomy and choices.
Question: What are commonly cited reasons women give for seeking an abortion?
Correct Answer: Financial, lack of support, not the right time, need to focus on other children
Question: Primary reasons for later-term abortions?
Correct Answer: Fetal anomalies, maternal health, didn't know, barriers to abortion
Question: What is the Turnaway Study? What did the study's findings reveal about financial and
psychological consequences of having/being denied an abortion just after a gestational cutoff?
Answers
Question: What are the positive outcomes associated with fulfilling friendships?
Correct Answer: Increased life satisfaction, Improved health, Better academic achievement, mitigating
negatives.
Question: Identify stereotyped beliefs about male and female friendship patterns
Correct Answer: Male friendships are competitive and less relational than females
Question: Define relational aggression and identify examples. Describe a potential explanation for why
girls and women engage in more relational aggression compared to boys/men
Correct Answer: Damaging others' existing or potential relationships and/or social status (bullying, gossip,
etc.). Men engage more in physical aggression.
Question: What are markers of a healthy romantic relationship?
Correct Answer: Time and tasks shared, affection, informal and deep talk, conflict management.
Question: Predictors of poor relationship outcomes?
Correct Answer: Giving up control, destructive conflict, spying, purposefully making the other jealous,
avoidance, cheating
Question: What are the benefits of marriage (physically, psychologically, financially, etc.)?
Correct Answer: Social support, increased earnings, inheritance and social security, tax benefits, employer
benefits, etc.
Question: Describe gendered division of labor in heterosexual couples including the amount of time spent
on household tasks and the type of tasks (routine labor, low-control labor, and intermittent labor).
Correct Answer: Women are expected to take on routine and low-control labor whereas men are expected
to do intermittent labor.
Question: What is relative resource theory?
Correct Answer: Social exchange and time availability (who brings in more money). Pattern of labor
inequality is seen even when women earn more, contradicting the theory's findings.
Question: Define reproductive justice and stratified reproduction
Correct Answer: Choice over all factors of reproduction and parenting. Those with more resources have
more autonomy and choices.
Question: What are commonly cited reasons women give for seeking an abortion?
Correct Answer: Financial, lack of support, not the right time, need to focus on other children
Question: Primary reasons for later-term abortions?
Correct Answer: Fetal anomalies, maternal health, didn't know, barriers to abortion
Question: What is the Turnaway Study? What did the study's findings reveal about financial and
psychological consequences of having/being denied an abortion just after a gestational cutoff?
